We loved it - favourite line was the unusual question asked by Jessica when she had a baby "Is it silver?"
Got a feeling that Vale could be the surprise among all the arrivals, just been given a 4 year contract by Chelsea at 19 , sounds a very decent player.
Think we'll be playing a back 4 most of the time, with a million midfielders we have to really! We've got 2 players for each position atm, 3 at rb if Emmanuel ever comes back.
Relative to other signings he will be cheap, that isn’t debatable. It’s not a criticism, not every player can be on 20k per week. He nearly went to Wimbledon so wages can’t be much
Father in law is a Chelsea fan, says Vale is the 'Jewel in the Crown' of Chelseas development system.
Ah we at Hull City can fix that with a nice ACL injury. Or a torn calf muscle. Whatever is on the menu in training that day.
Problem you have when talking football with people, is alot of people only watch where the ball is, rather than watch what's going on off it. I like Slater, but he goes missing due to his concentration, he watches the game rather than be involved in patchs, and often ends up stood next to opposition players, unlike Woods who is constantly scanning for space and moving into it to recieve the ball or pull markers out of position to create space for teammates. The above is huuuugly under appreciated and alot don't even see it
I do see it. I also see that Woods is a deep-lying playmaker like Seri, whereas Slater is more box-to-box. The two aren’t comparable so dropping one for the other makes zero sense.
I don't think Slaters involved enough in games, I don't see him making enough defensive contributions to be classed as box to box, I see him flit in and out of games, he will produce a good moment of play then you barely notice he's playing. Very overrated in my opinion. It's almost as if people dwell on the 1 good thing he does but ignore the 89 minutes of anonymity. If we pretty much playing 5 at the back, I'd take a deep lying playmaker like woods, with Tufan and Seri in the more advanced roles, woods recieveing the ball off the defense and finding Tufan and Seri in good attacking positions will be the plan I think. Slater will be decent backup
He's a defensive mid, the definition of which is to not be noticed in games. What do you want him to do, score 30 yard screamers?
The vale signing has definitely raised some eyebrows in the football world, it was expected he would go to a prem team if he was let out on loan
